Thursday, April 7, 2016

The New York Yankees offense explodes in rout of the Houston Astros

The New York
Yankees defeated the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the
Bronx, New York and the final score was 16-6.Michael Pineda started for the Yankees and did not pitch very well, Ivan
Nova pitched very well in relief.Starlin Castro had four hits and five RBI and Mark Teixeira had four RBI
to lead the offense.

Pineda pitched
five innings giving up eight hits and six runs with no walks and five
strikeouts.He earned his first win of
the season.Nova pitched four shutout
innings giving up four hits and a walk with five strikeouts and earned his
first save of the season.

Collin McHugh
started for the Astros and pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and
six runs with five of them being earned.He walked two and didn't strike out any batters.Michael Feliz pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up
seven hits and six runs with four walks and four strikeouts, Tony Sipp pitched
an inning giving up three hits and a run with a walk and two strikeouts and
Josh Fields pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up four hits and three runs and he
struck out one.Pat Neshek pitched a
perfect inning.

Jacoby Ellsbury
had a hit, Brett Gardner drew four walks and Alex Rodriguez drew two
walks.Teixeira had two hits and four
RBI, Brian McCann had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Carlos Beltran had
two hits and two RBI.Aaron Hicks had a
hit, Chase Headley had a hit and an RBI and Ronald Torreyes had a hit and two
RBI.Castro had four hits and five RBI,
Didi Gregorius had three hits and McCann and Castro each hit a double.Torreyes hit a triple and Castro, Teixeira
and Beltran each hit a homerun.The
Yankees were 9-16 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on
base.Headley and Ellsbury each had a
stolen base.

Jose Altuve had a
hit, George Springer had a hit, four RBI and drew a walk and Carlos Correa had
four hits and two RBI.Colby Rasmus had
two hits, Luis Valbuena had a hit and Tyler White had two hits.Preston Tucker had a hit and Rasmus, Tucker and
White each hit a double.Correa hit two
homeruns and Springer hit a homerun.The
Astros were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.Castro committed an error.

In the first
Correa hit a solo homerun to give the Astros a 1-0 lead.In the bottom of the first Teixeira hit an
RBI single, McCann hit a two run double, Beltran hit an RBI groundout, Headley
hit an RBI single and Castro hit an RBI single to make it 6-1 Yankees.In the second Springer hit a grand slam to
cut the lead to 6-5 Yankees.In the
second Castro hit a three run homerun to push the Yankees lead to 9-5.In the third Teixeira hit a three run homerun
to give the Yankees a 12-5 lead.In the
fifth Correa hit a solo homerun to make it 12-6.In the sixth Beltran hit a solo homerun and
in the seventh Torreyes hit a two run triple to make it 15-6 Yankees.Castro hit an RBI single making it 16-6
Yankees and that would be the final score.

The two teams
will play the rubber game of the series on Thursday afternoon.The Yankees will then head to Detroit for
three games and Toronto for three before returning home for a long
homestand.

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